thank you to hypx for sending us to PX Prime 2015 this year check out their
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ASUS and Corsair welcome to no actual booth in
particular what we're checking out right now is the Oculus cv1 or consumer
version one and the valve HTC Vive combo
thing what I came to PX Prime 2015 expecting to do was have a head-to-head
between these guys in terms of tech specs but that doesn't seem to be the
really important thing here which is a little abnormal for me I'm used to being
like well has this resolution screen and this refresh rate on the screen all this
kind of stuff that's great they're both kind of getting to a point where it's
it's okay it's obviously not great it's not the ideal VR experience people still
want higher resolution people still want higher refresh rate because then it will
feel more immersive and look more realistic you can still kind of see that
the graphics aren't that amazing because frame rate is super important in VR so
you need kind of lower settings and higher frame rate and a really beastly machine we know all this kind of stuff
so okay what is it coming down to well as you guys know killer apps is super
important Oculus right now has a valkyrie gear VR has some from Eve as
well and valve HTC Vive has a whole bunch of their own killer apps coming up
it's going to be kind of that whole console PC gaming War thing all over
again even though they're both on PC because it's going to be okay well this
one is hooked into this one specifically and yeah that's kind of a problem to be
completely honest I'm hoping that they merge libraries because then people are
going to be able to get the experience from the hardware that they want and be able to play whatever game they want but
I don't know how true that's going to be in the end we've seen it time and time
again people are like oh yeah we're going to get rid of exclusives and then
they super don't so I don't know we'll have to see now Hardware experience
there is some stuff I can say here the main differences are about the sensor
the Oculus has a sensor that sits in front of you and looks at its IR LEDs
and that's actually pretty good but only kind of condenses you into either a
sitting experience or a standing experience in a fairly small square you
can still stand and move around a little bit but really not that much the Vive
gives you much more freedom you can move around in a much larger area and have it
still be relatively accurate because there's sensors that will go up on the
walls in kind of the corners of the room and track you there the problem with
this is it's less consistent and harder to set up harder to set up uh the first
demo I did for the vibe was at NVIDIA on the first day early on and none of the
demos that I tried worked every single demo I tried had a critical failure at
some point in time during the demo also the HTC truck that was outside the
convention in a parking lot had so many problems that they had to shut down
partway through the day another booth that I tried it at a Seuss they had it
going on but I tried them much later on so they were able to kind of fix some of
the bugs it's an interesting idea a lot of you guys out there are going to be
tinkerers and you're going to be able to work on this stuff and set this stuff up
and that's cool you'll have no problem but other people are going to want the the more simple experience I don't know
if I can condense these two Brands into simple experience and more complicated
experience yet they're not out yet we'll have to see but that's kind of how it's
looking for now I'm excited hopefully you guys are too we'll have to see in
2016 how this war ends or some might argue begins anyways thanks to hyperx
for sending us here to PA Prime 2015 if you want to check out their YouTube
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thank you to ASUS and Corsair if you want to see products from all of these
companies click the link in the video description down below thank you guys for watching we'll see you next time